P. Inman and Tina Darragh Interview

The Other Room:

On July 1st P. Inman and Tina Darragh will perform The Other Room. To commemorate this fantastic reading we will be making a two films – one for Tina and one for Pete -where they’ll be interviewed. We would like to pose questions set by you. If your question is featured you will be credited at the end of the film. The resulting movies will be hosted here on the site. Please email us: otherroomeditors[at]googlemail[dot]com

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Tim Atkins

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zS4egwN-4] I agree with Marcus Slease.

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Is Art Criticism 50 Years Behind Poetry?

The bird makes this noise: Klatch:

For Shaw, coterie is not a closed world of intimates but an interlocking, open-ended set of associations and affiliations. He links coterie to the socio-historically self-conscious poetics of the local, community, and other collective formations. The poetics of coterie is presented by Shaw as an alternative to universalizing conceptions of poetry. O’Hara’s location of himself not in an homogenous elite but rather in intersecting constellations of persons (real and imagined affiliations), together with his famous time-stamping of his poems (it’s 12:18 in New York as I rewrite this sentence) both work against the Romantic Ideology of timeless poems by great individuals.

Read the rest. via Charles Bernstein

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MAYDAY

Kent Johnston has written about the current state of poetry criticism, itself a response to an editorial comment and reviews by Jason Guriel, and has invited 32 poets to write responses. You can read them here. via Tim Atkins

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Sparrow on Silliman

John Sparrow on Ron Silliman's Talk at Birkbeck in London:

On reflection, he acknowledged that poets, by and large, would like to put work out, and that if they actively resisted the blogging medium or a web presence in general they were committing professional suicide. This is not mutually exclusive to the sense of community which can potentially be built through the collaborative writings of online discussion, nor must it exclude or wipe out physical community. What blogging does enable is a more instantly and further reaching rigorous testing of community standards.

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Speechless

Derek Beaulieu:

I'm making a limited edition magazine/ephemeral object entitled "speechless" dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of concrete / visual poetry. Each issue of "speechless" will be between 20 and 28 pages per issue and will feature 3 - 4 poets -- the submission deadline is open (issues will be published when enough accepted submissions accumulate), and I plan to include both poetry and criticism.

Send work to: 2 - 733 2nd Avenue NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 0E4 derek[at]housepress[dot]ca via Crg Hill

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Disposable Venus Bits: Sunday 10th May, 2009

[wpvideo XntkNeBT] This is the video of Disposable Venus Bits. A collaborative performance that took place last night at the Foundry, Old Street. The song at the beginning of the video is part of the performance. The event was chiefly organized by Elizabeth Jane Burnett (thank you and well done). For details of the performers, poets and the event in general see the flyer produced by John Sparrow below. 

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Text Festival Round-Up

There has been much said about the Text Festival. As well as the arrival in the country of Ron Silliman for the first time, there have been numerous records, opinions and dissections recognised and asserted by a variety of peeps. Among them are Ron Silliman himself, Geof Huth (whose reading is available to listen to on Openned) Matt Dalby, James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston at The Other Room, Richard Barrett and Colin Herd, to name but a few. The links take you to specific posts but many of the blogs offer more enhanced commentary and thoughts. Tony Trehy has a few posts about it too.

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Geof Huth at the Text Festival

Geof Huth at the Text Festival (AAC, 27min, 9.9MB) Audio of Geof Huth reading at this year's Text Festival. I have cleaned the audio up as much as possible but due to the rudimentary nature of my recording equipment (an iPhone left in a pocket) headphones may be required. It is worth the effort.

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City State Launch

Thursday 21st May, 8pm

• Amy Key
• Jacob Sam-La Rose
• Jon Stone
• Jow Lindsay
• Kirsten Irving
• Ashna Sarkar
• Chris Horton
• Wayne Holloway-Smith
• Laura Forman
• Chris McCabe
• Siddhartha Bose

City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36 and is edited by Tom Chivers. The Market Trader, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX Facebook event

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